I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Knowledge Discovery Laboratory, Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I have been interested in unsupervised learning algorithms for about ten years. In 1995 I spent six weeks as a visiting researcher at Vanderbilt University studying clustering algorithms with Douglas Fisher. The following year I went to Germany for an internship at the Daimler-Benz Research Centre (now Daimler-Chrysler). There I worked in the machine learning group on a project to cluster data from the commercial vehicle division of the company. I learned first-hand the perils of flattening a relational database into a single flat file. I became interested in relational learning algorithms when I entered the Department of Computer Science at U Mass Amherst in 1999. I expect to choose a dissertation topic in the area of unsupervised relational learning algorithms.
My contact information, publications list, and curriculum vitae are available at 
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~blau.